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LONDON — Comme des Garçons is marking its 40th anniversary by bringing out a guerrilla-style, temporary brand called “Black” that epitomizes the style, the inventiveness and the originality of its founder.Rei Kawakubo created black as the color of fashion’s rebel yell. She might have pronounced later, in her enigmatic way, that “red is the new black” and made that vivid color — checkered or regal — part of her repertoire. In fact, the guiding force of a fashion life that stretches way beyond clothes is an urge to think forward, encapsulated in new projects this month — from the “Black” stores to a collaboration with Vogue Nippon and an exhibition at the Paris store Colette.
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A City and a Fashion Empire Come Together Over Art
HONG KONG — Much to the chagrin of the authorities, locals have long called the Hong Kong Museum of Art “the bathroom building.” Pink tiles, similar to those used on public toilets, cover the exterior of the boxy, harbor-front structure, built in 1991 by the government’s architectural services department.
For “Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation,” a contemporary art exhibition sponsored by the luxury brand, Richard Prince wrapped the complex in brightly painted vinyl. Its retro, book cover-inspired images — taken from “After Dark,” one of the best known series by the American artist — are rather more eye-catching.
At a moment when Hong Kong has been passionately debating the next steps toward creating the West Kowloon Cultural District — a taxpayer-funded project budgeted at 21.6 billion Hong Kong dollars, or about $2.8 billion — this exhibition, which runs through Aug. 9, highlights the obstacles and opportunities in the city’s grand ambition to become an internationally recognized cultural center.
Admirably here, the conservative, government-run museum goes beyond its usual comfort zone. The effort recognizes that, if Hong Kong is to live up to its marketing slogan as “Asia’s World City,” it needs to have a diversity of world-class art programming.
The museum has showcased Western collections before, but mostly antiquities. “Treasures of the World’s Cultures from the British Museum” from 2007 remains one of its most successful to date. “Passion” is the first large-scale showing of contemporary art.
Irresistible and Affordable
“IWANT our clothes to be the least expensive thing on the floor,” Isaac Mizrahi said last Thursday at Macy’s in Herald Square as he made his way to a promotion for the Liz Claiborne collection he now designs.
No surprise, Mr. Mizrahi, whose collections for Target turned him into a maharishi of value-minded fashion for most of America, makes a tank for a lot less. A blush-pink style in stretch jersey, trimmed with lace, is $35 in the spring Liz Claiborne collection. And it’s cute, too.
More than 400 people had turned up to see Mr. Mizrahi introduce his makeover of an aging label that style-conscious women had all but abandoned. People were shopping, and like Mr. Mizrahi, price was on their minds.
“I don’t think I’ve been in Macy’s in like a hundred years — it’s always so vanilla,” said Jill Sussman, who owns an art gallery in Manhattan and described herself as a fashion devotee. She is a regular client of Prada and Issey Miyake, although lately she has been shopping for those brands at Tokio7, a consignment store. At Macy’s, she had her eye on some snappy belted cardigans that were $69.
“I’m looking for something kind of edgy and fun,” she said.
As customers re-evaluate their relationship with designer clothes, high prices are driving some of them to hunt for fashion in stores or from brands they had previously overlooked. If they are not just staying home, shopping their closets, they may be part of a consumer pattern of trading down, from a Saks Fifth Avenue to a Macy’s, for example, and liking what they see — or at least not being horrified.
